Harper Reed Quotes
Our goal is to solve a problem for the retailer, not to solve a problem for my ego - which is big.
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I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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Anything you want to know, you go to Quora and get it. And at the same time, give people a platform that is easy to use for sharing the knowledge.
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Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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I'm playing every day. I still want to win.
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Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
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Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.
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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
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For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
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The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the real problems we pay no heed to [population decline]...In reality, much of the planet will be uninhabited long before it's uninhabitable
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For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.
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Even when we sleep we watch over one another.
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Our goal is to solve a problem for the retailer, not to solve a problem for my ego - which is big.
